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Perya games often attract a crowd for a reason. Standing near a booth during a fiesta lets you track the...
(Ed. note: If you haven’t read Part 1 of “The Red Inheritance,” you can find it here: The Red Inheritance.)...
On a weekday afternoon in a community centre, the loudest table in the room is usually the Mah Jongg game,...
By Rachel Shteir September 22, 2026 This story was originally published in the Forward. Click here to get the Forward’s...
By BERNIE BELLAN In May 2023 I wrote a story about Joan Druxman, whom I had just met in person...
By DAVID TOPPER When my late wife, Sylvia, and I moved into the house I’m still in, we brought with...
By HENRY SREBRNIK As we enter the fourth year of the “October 7” wars, things in Eastern Europe remain dire. There...
By H.C. PiloskiPART I — ROOTSForewordThe Red Inheritance is a work of fiction built on real histories. The political movements,...
An NBA defender who meets a ball handler near the opposite baseline is trying to interfere with the possession before...
By PJ Grisar September 8, 2026 This story was originally published in the Forward. Click here to get the Forward’s...
By JOANNE PALMER (reprinted with permission from the New Jersey Jewish News and the Jewish Standard) If every person is...
A reader wrote in last month asking a simple question: is it legal to play online casino games in Manitoba,...
By ELENA KNIGHT Rosh Chodesh Sameach! This month, Tishrei, is a time of beginnings; we observe Rosh Hashanah, Yom Kippur,...
By DAVID TOPPER This story of the sad and short life of a remarkable woman, Clara Haber, should be better...
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For more than a century, a slot machine was easy to recognize. Three reels. A lever. A row of fruit,...
By BERNIE BELLAN The confluence of money and corrupt politicians is something we read about all the time. It’s never...
By BERNIE BELLAN Often the most interesting story ideas come in the oddest of circumstances.Such was the case recently when...
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By BERNIE BELLAN (This story was originally posted July 14) From time to time we receive a request to do...
If you ask historians to name the most pro-Israel president in U.S. history, you’ll generally hear variations of the same responses. Harry Truman recognized the Jewish...
Julia Loktev left the Soviet Union with her family in 1979, when she was 9, during a brief window when Jews were allowed to emigrate. The...
Oscar-winning actress Eva Marie Saint, who has died at age 102, preferred mishpocheh to political posturing. Her stance was akin to that of author Albert Camus,...
(JTA) — Levels of engagement in Jewish life have risen overall, establishing a “new normal” three years after the Oct. 7, 2023, attacks, according to a...
On Wednesday in New York City, on the third anniversary of Oct. 7, two people spoke up for Palestinians. One of them was New York City...
(JTA) — Democratic Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro and GOP opponent Stacy Garrity faced off on Wednesday in a heated gubernatorial debate, clashing over most policy issues...
(New York Jewish Week) — Hundreds of pro-Palestinian protesters on Wednesday night overran a vigil marking Oct. 7 attended by New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani....
(JTA) — Three years after paramedic Amit Mann, 22, was killed by Hamas while treating the wounded in Kibbutz Be’eri on Oct. 7, newly aired recordings...
(JTA) — TEL AVIV – Some 50,000 Israelis filled Tel Aviv’s Yarkon Park on Wednesday night to mark three years since the Oct. 7 attacks, at...
As Salomé Parent-Rachdi and Zac Deloupy worked on the drawings for a book about Israeli-Palestinian romance, they had no way of knowing the world they were...
End Times Fascism: And the Fight for the Living World By Naomi Klein and Astra Taylor Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 384 pages, $32 Judaism is not...
A Broadway show, a star-studded television tribute, a new hotel and museum in Nashville. As odes to Dolly Parton keep coming, a recording of the late...
On the third anniversary of the Oct. 7, 2023, Hamas attack on Israel — his first commemoration as New York City’s mayor — Zohran Mamdani mourned...
(JTA) — Naomi Ragen, the New York-born Israeli novelist and playwright known for her portrayals of Orthodox Jewish women in crisis, says the cancellation of a...
Nearly two-thirds of Jewish voters in New York City disapprove of Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s handling of antisemitism, according to a new poll released on the third...
(JTA) — ”They tried to kill us. We survived. Let’s eat.” Alan King’s joke about Jewish holidays gets to the essence of Jewish persistence in the...
(JTA) — SDEROT, Israel – Shalom Aida was at home when the first air raid siren sounded at 6:29 a.m. on October 7, 2023, but he...
(JTA) — Troy Jackson, Maine’s Democratic nominee for the U.S. Senate, said he opposed “giving a blank check” to Israel at a debate on Tuesday, while...
A religion professor named by Jewish Haverford College students in a recently settled lawsuit against the school was arrested Tuesday after authorities say he used anonymous...
A raft of pro-Palestinian and democratic socialist groups will protest against New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani on the three-year anniversary of the Oct. 7 attacks,...
(JTA) — Benjamin Netanyahu’s speech at the United Nations General Assembly this year came at a critical time for Israel. Talks were underway to resolve the...
(JTA) — The first time most of the world heard Hannah Gann’s name was in late September, when the 34-year-old Philadelphia high school teacher and activist...
(JTA) — The head of the Jewish Greens said she may leave the Green Party of England and Wales after it adopted a policy that defines...
There are three of them onstage. Arielle Rosales, a Mexican Puerto-Rican Jew from the Lower East Side, is dancing flamenco. Amanda Castro, a Brooklyn-born Puerto-Rican from...
